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Portrait of An Artist - MOHAMMAD HAMZA By Rex A.C Silver
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Mohammad Hamze
Eventually, I will take you around the world and we can explore the international barber scene and trends from many countries together. For now, you can enjoy all of this from the comfort of your Barber Shop here in Australia as you peruse the pages of our fine magazine.
I hope you enjoy seeing the work and meeting some of these artists who, so far, are thrilled at getting attention from their Australian barber brothers and sisters. Our interviews are brief as the language barrier is only one hurdle we jump over and hoop we jump through, to bring you these images and words.
This is the 2nd Iranian Barber we are meeting before we jet to another exciting country and explore a completely different barber world next issue. Last time we met Abbas Ahmadifard who’s highly stylistic images captivated us in their intensity.
This issue we meet Mohammad (Mo) Hamze a 7-year veteran who trained in Iran and is an all-rounder.
In saying all-rounder, Mo does all the hair, the colour work and the photography!
It’s unclear how Mo makes his money on the daily, I assume it’s from his online education courses (one is for 12 months) for when I enquired if he had a barber shop and did customers, or studio, studio was the answer.
He teaches all his skills in his courses, hair, hair colour and photography and has students all over the world from Russia to Greece. Mohammad has travelled a number of times to Turkey to do workshops and would love to come to Australia.
Personally, I would love to see these guys in action. Enjoy Mohammad’s work. It’s rawer than Abass’s but still, by seeing both artists, you get a sense for what this region views as on trend and that’s fascinating, educating and entertaining.
